Cohn, Adam

  General Notes:

Adam Cohn is probably identical with an artist named Adam Cohn, who us ed the pseudonym "Adolf Conadam." He was born in Warsaw and studied i n Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1880 he won a prize while h e was a student there. He spent three years wandering in Ital, return ed to Vienna, then moved to Munich. He lived there from 1889-1896, do ing illustrations for the humor magazine "Fliegende Blatter" [Flying P ages]. Then he moved to the town of Dachau near Munich where he wa s a painter, a part of the "Dachau School" and was a pupil of Adolf Ho lzel.

This lexicon gives Adam Cohn's date of birth as December 12, 1857. An other source gives his date of birth as January 15, 1861. Despite th e discrepencies in the dates, it is likely to be the same Adam Cohn wh o was the son of Chaim and Rozalia Cohn.